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The Role of SMS Messages in the Future of Sales

Earlier this summer, Salesforce published 9 trends that will have the most impact on the future of sales. This post focuses on Trend 4: Modern selling continues to expand into more digital channels, including SMS messages. Their assertion is that channels previously reserved for just marketing and customer service—including business text messaging—will now be just

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Firms Reduce Compliance Risk with SMS Financial Me...

While email still has the lion’s share of a financial firm’s business communications, social media and text messaging are growing in importance to both advisors and investors in how they conduct business. This shouldn’t be surprising given that 30% of financial advisors are Millennials, while another 44% belong to Generation X. It’s not just your

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4 Tips for Opt-In Compliance for SMS Messages

One of the concerns we hear most from companies considering using SMS messages is about compliance. The consensus is that achieving compliance is too hard, so therefore, they can’t use text messaging to grow their business. With the Converse platform, compliance is simplified and automated to ensure that you’ve properly received and recorded consent from

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Use SMS Messages to Grow Loyalty Program Engagemen...

The overwhelming majority (88%) of consumers belong to five or less loyalty programs. But 65% of them say they engage with less than half the loyalty programs to which they belong. While executives attribute this lack of use to competing loyalty programs, continued use of physical cards, and a lack of understanding the best contact

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Why Call Centers Must Use a SMS Tool For Contact C...

Consumers want to be served on the channels they use every day, not those that happen to be convenient for your business. Research conducted with contact centers conclude that they’re enabling messaging channels for customer service, but consumers say the reality just isn’t so. What’s interesting is, if a majority of organizations have enabled digital